Re: CONLANG Digest - 7 Sep 2000 to 8 Sep 2000 (#2000-245)

Muke Tever wrote:
> >     etc. (in another words, the "universal" tendency of SVO languages - as
> > opposed to Mandarin and English - is to be right-branching, right/eh?)
>
> English isn't SVO?
> It doesn't fit all those "universals", of course, but...
That was the point, English *is* SVO, yet violates a number of the
universal tendencies.

> Is <Cuchulainn> /"ku.kl=.eIn/ or what?
It's something like /kuxulan/.

> Dictionaries can't help much either, 'cause I don't trust mine much after I
> see it tells me to pronounce <robot> as /"roU.b@t/ or /"ra.b@t/...
How old was the dictionary?  Cause I have heard /@/ used once or twice
in that word.  I wonder if it's an earlier pronunciation?

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